Bernie Bros Gone Woke
Class, Identity, Neoliberalism
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books
- Initial publish date
- May 2023
- Category
- Elections
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781642598186
- Publish Date
- May 2023
- List Price
- $38.5
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Bernie Bros Gone Woke offers a provocative analysis of the Sanders campaigns and argues for the continuing importance of emancipatory universality.
In 2016 and 2020, the Bernie Sanders campaign gave American leftists a path towards social change through electoral politics. In order to combat neoliberal and reactionary uses of identity, the 2020 Sanders campaign combined a working-class agenda of universalist policies with various forms of social movement activism. In doing so it compromised on universalist principles and socialist radicalism in order to appeal to distinct demographic groups and win the election.
Bernie Bros Gone Woke reveals how intersectional politics contributed to the failure of the Sanders campaign - a lesson that the organized left must learn if it is to challenge progressive neoliberalism and move beyond postmodern post-politics.
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Marc James Leger is an independent scholar based in Montreal. He is author of several books, including Don't Network: The Avant Garde after Networks and Vanguardia: Socially Engaged Art and Theory.